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American fire : love, arson, and life in a vanishing land / Monica Hesse.
Documents the trial of a man charged with dozens of counts of arson in a rural Virginia county, sharing insight into his struggles with addiction, his relationship with his accomplice girlfriend, and the impact of the fires on their community.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631490514
- ISBN: 1631490516
- Physical Description: 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | "Charge that line!" -- "The South starts here" -- "Orange in the sky" -- Charlie -- Monomanie incendiaire -- Tonya -- "Like a ghost" -- "Tell us what you know about that" -- Charlie and Tonya -- Schrödinger's evidence -- The eastern shore arsonist hunters -- "I've seen enough ass to know" -- "Like hell was coming up through the ground" -- Tonya and Charlie -- "They're not hunters at all" -- "I didn't light them all" -- "Someday they'll go down together" -- "Everybody has a reason for why they do things in life" -- "I can't tell you something I don't know" -- "Midnight without makeup" -- The broken things -- "Time to wake up" -- Burned -- "We'd done it before" -- "They came out of everywhere" -- "Moral turpitude" -- What happened next -- "It's over" |
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| Subject: | Arson > Virginia > Accomack County. Accomack County (Va.) > Economic conditions. Accomack County (Va.) > Social conditions. |
Available copies
- 17 of 17 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Livingston County. (Show)
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- 1 current hold with 17 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livingston County Library - Main Library | 364.16 HESSE (Text) | 2601865008 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library | 364.16 HES (Text) | 37884102755208 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Bollinger County Library | 364.16 (Text) | 32713200007949 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Public Library | 364.164 HES (Text) | 32512909361707 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cape Girardeau Public Library | 364.164 HES (Text) | 33042004470566 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Carthage Public Library | 364.1642 H46a (Text) | 34MO2001797374 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | 364.1642 HES 2017 (Text) | 0002204843326 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| De Soto Public Library | 364.16 HESSE Monica (Text) | 33858000105066 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Doniphan-Ripley County Library | 364.15 HESSE (Text) | 38421100678527 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Grundy County Jewett Norris | 364.16 (Text) | 33577000094454 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
